Sometime in the next 50 years, an alarm will go off at one of the world’s most advanced neutrino detectors, and a scramble will begin. At least, that’s how a team of scientists designing a new method of neutrino detection hope it will play out.

In September, physicists were scratching their heads at CERN when neutrinos were recorded as traveling faster than the speed of light. That shouldn’t happen unless Einstein turns out to be wrong. The experiment […]